Delivery

Colour, 35 mm
Greece, 2004, 100 min
Section: Horizons

Synopsis

Every metropolis has its dark corners where some people have to live — lonely, unhappy, desperate, homeless, friendless. One night a young man appears among them who has come to Athens from god knows where. He gets off a bus, sleeps at the bus station, and goes to look for work the next morning. The best job he can find is as a pizza deliverer — that is, if he can quickly find his way around a modern megalopolis that never sleeps. He rides his scooter through the streets delivering boxed pizza and silently listening to dejected, angry and unwanted people talk about their lives. They came looking for happiness but sank to the depths, with only dreams
left to comfort them.

About the director

Nikos Panayotopoulos (b. 1941, Mytilene, Greece) studied film in Athens. In 1960-73 he lived in Paris where he attended the Sorbonne’s film school and the Cinemathéque. Since 1973 he has lived and worked in Athens. After turning out a few shorts, he debuted in features with The Colors of the Iris (Ta chromata tis iridos, 1974). Then followed The Idlers of the Fertile Valley (I tembelides tis eforis kiladas, 1978), awarded the Golden Leopard at the Locarno IFF and a Silver Hugo at the Chicago IFF. After Melodrama (1981), Varieté (1984) and The Woman Who Dreamed (I gynaika pou evlepe ta oneira, 1988), he made I Dream of My Friends (Onirevome tous filous mou, 1993), which garnered a Best Actor Award (for Lefteris Voyatzis) at the San Remo IFF. Other films: The Bachelor (O ergenis, 1997), Edge of Night (Afti i nihta meni, 1999), Beautiful People (2001) and I’m Tired of Killing Your Lovers (Kourastika na skotono tous agapitikous sou, 2002).